Neighborhood Toolkit #2

Neighborhood Meetings Continue

Possible Guidelines for a 2nd Meeting

Purpose:  

• Add new members to your neighborhood group

• Get to know each other and build trust and cohesion. 

• Keep everyone updated on what needs doing

• Use Trump / Musk outrages to motivate action

• Nourish hope & courage to share with others 

Sit in a circle and start with a check-in:

• Include your name, your main concern and what gives you hope. Allot 2-3 minutes per person.

Discuss these ideas on how our neighborhood group can help every individual find what is theirs to do:

• Keep everyone updated on what needs doing (popcorn ideas from the group; 10 min.)

  • To defend the vulnerable & civic institutions 

  • To contact leaders & media 

  • To protest & resist 

• Use Trump / Musk outrages to motivate action (popcorn for 10 min.)

  • Which people and what institutions are threatened?

  • Who are the change agents - electeds, business, labor, education, media, faiths ... 

  • How can we engage young people, families, elders, the poor ... 

• Nourish hope & courage to share with families, friend, others (popcorn for 10 min.)

  • Share humor, creativity & messaging 

  • Share success stories  

Next Consider:

• How to share across all neighborhoods and within our neighborhood?

  1. 1. • What to share?  actions, messaging, humor, successes, hope & courage 

        • Email, Google Group, Basecamp*

        • How to avoid information overload - perhaps one point person from NG to filter info so only 1-2 emails per day

• Hold regular neighborhood group meeting - e.g. monthly

  1. 1. • Summarize past months actions, messaging, humor, successes 

        • Brainstorm how to engage change agents ... electeds, business, labor, education, media, faiths ...

        • Brainstorm how to engage young people, workers, families, elders, the poor ... 

        • Identify one action that many may wish to pursue after the meeting 

• How to learn the stories & tell the stories of those that are harmed? 

  1. 1. • Volunteer in the community to learn the stories, then share the stories in the neighborhood group 

        • Follow journalists that tell the stories 

        • Share the stories anonymously with family, friends, others 

        • Share the stories anonymously in letters to leaders & the media 

Reconvene with Communities Rising at monthly All-Neighborhood Gathering

• Come share your ideas at our monthly all-neighborhood gatherings.

*For technical help with creating a Basecamp project for group communication, email Jim Little.